[ILQSO] 2008 ILQP

[John Geiger]

Pete,

You want to see bad roads, come to Oklahoma!
The ones that aren't unnecessarily turned into 4 lanes roads are in terrible shape, with a 70mph speed limit to boot!

73s John AA5JG


--- On Mon, 1/19/09, Peter E. Beedlow <nn9k at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> From: Peter E. Beedlow <nn9k at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: [ILQSO] 2008 ILQP
> To: ilqso at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Monday, January 19, 2009, 5:41 PM
> Guess with the wind blowing as hard as it was Sunday the
> WIARC team couldn't
> hear the cheers and applause from the GRVARS folks for a
> job well done. We
> all appreciate the time and labor you put into the
> post-contest work.
> 
> >From my perspective the contest was just a Sunday
> afternoon drive, maybe a
> little hectic at times but still a nice drive. I'm
> lucky enough to have an
> excellent driver whom I trust to make routing changes on
> the fly with little
> input from me. He knows when to go fast and when to slow
> down and most
> importantly how to make gentle turns to keep all my stuff
> from flying
> around.
> 
> My only wish for the 2009 contest and it'll never
> happen, is for a lot of
> road repairs. This state has to have some of the worst
> highways in the
> country and for a CW op it presents a challenge just to
> keep the dits and
> dahs in the correct order. During the contest we were on a
> secondary road
> and hit a hidden, unavoidable bump and I lost all my
> keying. After a few
> quick checks I determined that keying cable had popped out
> of the rig.
> Needless to say next year tape and baling wire will be used
> to secure all
> the cables. Nice roads!
> 
> But as I said above, it was a nice Sunday drive and you
> guys did a great job
> with the publicity, the log checking, the awards and
> everything it takes to
> make a bang-up QSO Party. Thanks again for the effort.  
> 
> Pete, NN9K
> 
> 
> 
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